—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, October 20, 1973
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HARRISBURG MEMO...
To: The People of Pennsylvania
From: Milton J. Shapp,
Governor
HARRISBURG At the
Conference on the Rights of
Children conducted here
recently, I had an opportunity to
talk to parents and professionals
about our Commonwealth’s most
precious resource - our children.
As governor, I believe it is our
responsibility to take all steps
possible to help children develop
their talents to the maximum of
their abilities.
In Pennsylvania my ad
ministration has made a start.
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But we are a long way from being
successful in this endeavor.
In fact, the pendulum has been
swinging the wrong way in recent
years.
For more than a thousand
Pennsylvania youngsters, hope
was dashed last year in the
devastation of child abuse. The
1972 Quid Abuse Report of the
Department of Public Welfare
indicates “beatings, abrasions
and burns were the most common
types of abuse, in that order.”
Nationally, it is estimated that
as many as 25,000 youngsters are
seriously abused by their parents
or families. Hunk about the
horror of that statistic.
In a modern, progressive
society thousands of cases were
reported to the authorities
regarding child beatings,
abrasions and burns, deliberately
inflicted. Worse, the indications
are that the reported cases
represent only the tip of the
bloody statistics of child abuse.
We are not talking about some
primitive emerging nation, or
about Hitler and his ruthless
designs, but about Americans,
and, yes, our own neighbors in
Pennsylvania.
Still worse, there are many
things going on in this nation that
are not openly as brutal but
nonetheless just as cruel or in
deed crueler to youngsters in
every sense of the word.
Children continue to be
deprived find hungry. The poor
languish, denied opportunities to
live fruitful lives, yet the federal
government leads a nationwide,
general assault on human service
programs.
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Human values are being
downgraded today as federal
programs to help people are
scuttled with ruthless precision.
It has become politically
fashionable to denigrade human
service programs funded with
public money. The-concern with
human rights and dignity so
genuinely expressed by
Presidents Franklin Roosevelt
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and John Kennedy and carried on
by Lyndon Johnson in the 1960’s is
viewed now through cynical eyes There are bills lanquishing in
and blasted by federal officials as Washington dealing with child
a scheme designed to benefit a —abuse, runaway children,
few social workers adoption information and
bureaucrats. . .' juvenile delinquency - and no
_Thi* _negative_view is having money to ©mplement these
impact. The high cost of living programs if they do pass,
coupled with high rates of Here in Harrisburg the state
taxation, has driven a substantial House of Representatives has cut
majority of Americans into a $4 million from our request for
skeptical and somewhat adverse juveniles. The House also cut my
attitude toward government- request for day care and special
financed social service education funds along with a
programs.
In the name of economy,
genuine human needs are being
neglected throughout the nation.
Actually, there is no economy in
this approach. This is so because
the costs of crime, unem
ployment and economic
stagnation will far offset any
proclaimed savings by govern
ment in eliminating the
programs that benefit people and
help them live healthier, happier
and more productive lives.
The cruelest hoax of all now
being perpetrated is that even the
beneficiaries of such programs
are disillusioned with them.
The deprived children of
Pennsylvania must not become
pawns in this negatively directed,
specious reasoning over
government economies. Neither
must neglected children be
allowed to be passed around
willy-nilly because there is in
sufficient funding for adequate
program development.
It is my contention - a thought
expressed in my book, “New
Growth, New Jobs for Penn
sylvania” published in 1962, that
making the proper investment in
developing children’s lives, - in
enabling children to have the
proper start in life, actually :
saves taxpayers’ money.
The House of Representatives
here is playing the same hold-the
line attitude that President Nixon
has adopted. It is a penny wise
and dollar foolish attitude since it
forces all levels of government -
state, local and federal to pay out
more millions of dollars created
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refusal to act to restore $13.7
million for mental health and
mental retardation services.
I ask, is it economical to allow a
retarded child to languish in an
institution for want of the funds to
begin an adequate community
program? I say no.
As governor, I have asked my
administration to work for this
positive goal: to make certain
that life in Pennsylvania is such
that every child has a chance.
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By Gov. Milton J. Shapp